Finding Motivation
Finding motivation can feel as difficult as finding your car keys on a busy morning, but you're not going to get far without it! As a physician, I am so interested in the WHY of things. I think it’s important and useful to understand what is happening in your body in...
Biology of a Cycle, the short-short version
There are major hormone changes happening in perimenopause. Let me back up. There are major hormone changes happening constantly in a woman’s body from puberty through menopause. Our bodies get into a nice rhythm once periods are regular, sometime in our teens to our...
Silver Linings?
I write this at 5am, in our temporarily quiet home while everyone is asleep. I used to get frustrated when I woke up early like this. Now, I relish in the peace and quiet. Before I had kids, I remember talking with a mom-friend who said she recently started getting up...
Could this be the “P” word?
I have a medical clinic in Seattle where I practice naturopathic medicine . I am a naturopathic physician focusing on women's health issues for women mostly in the 25-65 year old range. This is a little story about one of those women, who is so like many of the 35 to...
The PeriMenopause Path
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